What are the responsibilities and job description for the Structured Asset Portfolio Manager position at Securian Financial Group?
About the Role:
We are seeking a Structured Asset Portfolio Manager to join our team. As a key member of the structured assets group, you will be responsible for supporting the growth of our structured assets portfolios. Your primary objective will be to help the structured assets team achieve the investment objectives of various portfolio strategies.
The ideal candidate will have experience in investment research and a strong understanding of structured asset markets. You will be responsible for:
We are seeking a Structured Asset Portfolio Manager to join our team. As a key member of the structured assets group, you will be responsible for supporting the growth of our structured assets portfolios. Your primary objective will be to help the structured assets team achieve the investment objectives of various portfolio strategies.
The ideal candidate will have experience in investment research and a strong understanding of structured asset markets. You will be responsible for:
- Oversight of primary and secondary structured asset markets including timely new issue recommendations with both structural and underlying asset analysis with consideration to relative value both across structured assets and broader investment options
- Presenting secondary ideas (based on relative value)
- Responsible for trading approved trade ideas
- Ongoing surveillance of current holdings with the goal of right sizing risk to align with current fundamental viewpoints
- Updated investment sector thesis with positioning on a regular basis
- Internal rating assessment
- Evaluation of underlying asset performance metrics compared to a benchmark
- Maintenance of asset analytics and modeling
- Recurring Sector level analysis and overview meant to identify inflection points within an analyst's sector coverage expressed through fundamental sector outlook and recommendation
- Sector evaluation that incorporates elements of ESG to highlight relevant ESG options within an analyst's sector coverage
- Projects/experiments meant to creatively enhance and improve the research process including (but not limited to) leveraging various technology platforms
- Cross-sector support and debate